r/backpacking
World Travel Backpacking
A subreddit for traveling backpacking and wilderness backpacking, not restricted to one or the other. All posts must be flaired "Travel" or "Wilderness"
Community Stats
- Subscribers
- 5.5M
- Content rating
- SFW
- Created
- 2008-12-02
- Posts per day
- 21/day
- Comments per day
- 250/day
- Discussion style
- Balanced
- Content mix
- Image-heavy (88% image, 3% video)
- Top post
- 7,900 upvotes
- Top 100 median
- 1,700 upvotes
- Competition
- Low competition
- Peak hour
- 5:00 AM UTC
r/backpacking is a SFW subreddit with 5.5 million subscribers, created in 2008. It's image-heavy, with about 91% of top posts being images or video. Posts average about 21 per day with 249 comments per day, making it a balanced community. Top posts this year scored up to 7.9K upvotes, with a typical top-100 post earning 1.7K. It's a low-competition community — the 100th-ranked top post of the past year is from 330 days ago. Browse 11 closely related communities below to find similar subreddits.
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